Trinity Christian Academy
Valedictorian
Katie McCullough
Parents John & Renee McCullough
GPA 4.15
Katie is looking forward to attending Baylor University in the fall
where she will be in the pre-med
track in the University Scholars
program – the honors college
at Baylor. She’s hoping to go to
medical school and is considering pediatric oncology as her
specialty. “I’m just really drawn to
kids with cancer. I feel like they
really need an advocate. I love
working at Cook’s because they make kids feel normal
and like they aren’t sick. They make their bad experience
less bad,” she said. She’s attended Trinity Christian for 13
years. She likes all of the things that her class has done
together including unity retreats. She’s looking forward to
their class mission trip to the Bahamas later in May. They
will be working at an after school program for underprivileged kids doing improvements and repairs to its facility
and then working and playing with the kids in the afternoons. She will m iss the people in Parker County most
including her twin sister who is attending another school
down I35 in Austin at UT and friends that she’s gone to
school with most of which for a decade or more. Football
games, school spirit and learning more things specific to
what she wants to do is what she’s looking forward to at
Baylor. “I love Parker County, it’s the people that make
it,” she said.
Salutatorian
Brianna Ludwig
JUNE 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
John & Jodie Ludwig
GPA 4.13
This salutatorian isn’t going far
away to school, but she has high
aspirations for herself when she
gets there. Brianna will be attending SMU in the fall working
towards a BBA in Administration,
but has plans to attend law school
and become a corporate lawyer
as her career. “My dad is an executive in a company and I always
looked up to that, but I’ve always
been interested in law. It’s a good way to combine the
two,” she said. At first I didn’t know I wanted to go to law
school, but I knew I wanted to get a business degree,”
she continued. She’s lived in Parker County for 12 years
moving here from Parker, Colorado outside of Denver
when her dad had a job change. She’s attended Trinity
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Christian since the first grade. She’s a volleyball player
and has been on the varsity squad since her sophomore
year. One of her best memories of school happened this
year as the TCS girls competed for the state championship match in their home gym. Although they weren’t
successful in their bid for the championship, “It was fun
playing my last game in my home gym,” Brianna said.
She’s going to miss school the most when she goes off to
college, “It takes up most of my life,” she said. Meeting
new people in college is what she’s looking forward to
having graduated with only 30 in their class at Trinity.
Weatherford Christian School
Valedictorian
Jennah Foland
Parents Jeff and Jennifer Foland
GPA 4.377
A summer internship studying
creative writing and medicine is
leading this Parker County grad
back to the green hills of Scotland
for college. Jennah attended a
summer program at the University
of St. Andrews last summer and
will be returning there this fall to
study business and management.
She will miss having lunch in her
former English teacher’s room,
Mrs. Favor. “We would talk about
books but mainly we would just talk about life,” she said.
Attending a school-sponsored mission trip to Haiti with
five other students was a bright spot of her year. “We
went to a school that’s almost the exact size of WCS
and helped them update their sponsor information. It’s a
beautiful country but it’s lost in poverty. The people there
are really amazing. Their faith down there is unbelievable. They have nothing, but have so much joy,” she said.
Going so far away there are a lot of things she will miss
about home, “Sweet tea, Dr Pepper…southern hospitality,
and my family for sure. Part of me is really excited to be
going away, but the other part of me is a little bit nervous
to be away from the familiarity and knowing everybody.”
Salutatorian
Hannah Burks
Parents Gene & Amy Burks
GPA 4.313
Hannah is becoming a Red Raider this fall but is so far
undecided on her major, but she knows she is going to
be a part of the honors program at Texas Tech. “I really
loved Texas Tech when I visited,” she said. She’s also
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